I am a retired plumber and I don't even have that many slip joint pliers. The WILDE brand has been around since the 60s and sold at plumbing wholesalers. The early versions did not have rubber grips just embellished handles, great company. Great video
Those angled slip joints are the absolute best for plumbing. They are just the perfect design. I actually noticed on this solder seal ones that the grips are coming off of, they have designs on the handles. I might cut it off and see what it looks like. Thanks bud!
you’re literally my favorite youtube channel !! I literally can watch you talk and show all your tools all day. Looking forward for the future videos! good luck with everything man!
I got a maintenance job at an auto parts manufacturer a couple months ago and I love coming and watching your videos to learn what kinda tools I need, what works well for what sort of job, and just what I need in my tool bag. Been very helpful and enjoy watching your videos. Love the content
The ones I use are the Irwin flat jaws and the knipex cobras. I am a service tech and have tried everything else but they are the best. My service tech friend that has $30,000 worth of tools on the other side of the country uses the same ones randomly
Nice collection there. Wilde makes nice stuff. I have several pair of those Cman Professional pliers in red and black, they made all kinds of odd designs too. Keep your eye out for a pair of Channellock Nutbuster 410 & 414, I think they are also called 'Parrot Nose' pliers. Channellock also make smooth jaw pliers, #415.
I have the nut busters and the smooth jaw channell locks in the collection already! I’m not crazy about the smooth jaw ones though. They really don’t work well. But they are still good to have in the collection 😂 I really want to get my hands on some of those slip joint needle nose craftsman professional pliers. They did have some really cool design. They are pretty hard to find
Speaking of awesome pliers, I just got some Knipex Twin Grips in the mail today. Ordered one pair and received one BOX..with 6 pairs in it. Somebody, somewhere messed up good!! 👍
I wonder if the longer straight section on the front of the jaws of the ES version of the cobra would work better than the regular version? It might make an interesting comparison
Those slip joint pliers are known as water pump pliers, and I've been using Ridgid versions, the 734, for a long time. I don't know about the Wilde, but the Ridgids have a narrow head, and they get so well into spaces fatter Channellocks will not. Sticking two pair in a close space is possible. One plumbing contractor I work for issues them to everyone.
Love the flush fastener my first exposure to it was SK. Got some new stuff coming once it’s all here ima drop a video. Big Wilde tool fan myself I think my first exposure was through tekton tools. Fair prices on just about everything they sell. They’re punches are great too.
Those SK were made by western forge just like those craftsman ones. I’ve always wanted a pair of those with the green handles. I have heard the Wilde punch and chisel set is great. Great pry bars too. They have a lot of good stuff.
24:45 The knipex cobra are actually more like pipe wrenches. I also experienced the issue. Fitting them on hexagon shapes like nut can be a bit difficult, (If you don't want to destroy the nut) and I think is more the secondary function of the pliers. They are more allrounders. Knipex makes the "pliers wrench" for hexagon parallel things, but it has no teeth and also you can't have them "non-parallel". There are situations you need teeth. Also you may want to tilt the yaws. Totally understandable, having pliers that have the high count of adjustment positions like the cobras, and the flat yaws with teeth is something desirable. This is something knipex can learn from channellock. No tool is the ultimate tool and will work for everything.
It's actually a combination of both your pronunciations lol. It sounds like Why-L-Dee. Their flush fastener stuff was out of stock on their site for the longest time, cool that they got some more made, I wonder if it's because they're OEMing for Tekton now I think (judging off the specific design and "tells" on the new Tekton stuff). I had real good experiences with them too. FedEx damaged the box and the longest pry bar in the set I ordered disappeared, they got a new one sent to me, and the pry bars are awesome and durable. Ordering off them was a little more expensive than going to an authorized distributor but the money went directly to those 70 manufacturing jobs in Kansas and that's fine by me. Knipex also has that kind of joint on their Alligator which you don't hear about often over everyone worshipping the Cobras 🤣 and there's a couple Japanese companies making that style, actually a bunch of companies over there still making pump pliers and crescent wrenches and stuff still in their own country. But I don't think anyone makes versions as small as Wilde who has 5" and 6.5" with that joint though. 9h yeah and for anyone wanting some of those Pipe Wrench Pliers, Epstein still has the old style with the tongue and groove adjustment on clearance for just $12 when they're normally like $35-40!
Well now I know the right way to say it 😂. Yea I bought the red pair of pipe wrench pliers from HJE recently for 12 bucks. Couldn’t pass it up. Those are some awesome pliers. I’m a big fan of Wilde stuff. They make great screwdrivers, punches, chisels, pry bars and stuff like that too as well as great pliers. One of the best tool companies out there in my opinion.
4:25 They would make a satisfying tool to restore. Because of the look, it's easy to improve on that. Some sharpening of the teeth with a three-sided file and somehow new handles and they are good again.
Dang that’s a good point. I never thought about trying to restore the teeth, but I bet the triangle file would work. I might try that. I can do some plasti dip handles too. That’s a good idea. Thanks!
@@donwendling7800 If I had to choose between those two, I would choose the Channellock 430 all day long. They have a wider jaw opening and just feel better to me. The Wilde flush joint is really nice too, but it’s tough to beat channel locks. The 10 inch angled slip joints are what you want from Wilde. Those are the best.
I've always pronounced it WILL-DEE, but I believe it is actually pronounced WILD as in Oscar Wilde. WILD-E could be right though. They make great stuff, I love their roll pin punches, and their handle pry bars. Proto rebrands their pliers as well, which makes sense since Mac and PROTO are both S-B&D owned. Lang rebrands the pry bars with orange handles,TEKTON rebrands them in standard red, Craftsman had them , Walmart has them under their Hyper Tough line ( where I bought all of mine ) first red then went to black handles. I just got a very nice set of WILDE Screwdrivers on closeout from HJE, I'm not quite sold on the triangular handle profile yet but the quality is definitely there. They're also the OEM for the Tekton screwdrivers, I really love my red hard handles. Tekton also rebrands many of their punches and pliers. I love Wilde, but as a Channellock fanboy I buy the blue handled pliers the most. I'm also somebody who doesn't like generic names, I don't jump on people for it if they're referring to another good quality American tool though. To me Channellocks are tongue & groove pliers made by the De'arment family in Meadville Pa, and if somebody calls some cheapo inferior import junk " Channellocks " it will bug me and I use it as an opportunity to correct / educate. My uncle who's a plumber used to use the name generically till I started gifting him the blue handles and he was so impressed by the quality of Channellock that he no longer does that.
I have the lang rebrand orange pry bars. They are great pry bars for a good price. I love them. I’ll always call these style pliers channel locks. I just don’t know what else to call them. I’m not going to look at my buddy and ask him to hand me those water pump pliers lol. I am also a big fan of the Channellock tool company and have most of their products when it comes to pliers. They are a company that deserves to be supported for continuing to make quality tools in the USA for an affordable price. I think Wilde is right there with them.
@@realworldtoolreviews You'd actually be surprised at just how many different pliers they make. I went looking at their digital catalog, and there's only fraction of what they make that you will find in stores. I keep forgetting that I want to try a pair of their 367 linesmans. I really wish they'd make a small 6" pair which would really be traditional " combination pliers ". If you're not familiar, our standard default pliers here in the US are slipjoints, but in the UK and Europe they have combination pliers.
@@TylerSnyder305 yea I’ve got a couple pairs of the combination style pliers. They’re like lineman’s pliers with nut grabbers on them. I have a ton of the channel locks that you don’t find in stores. I’m pretty sure I have seen all their stuff. My next ones are going to be the 8 in linesman’s. I wish they had 6 too. I have a 6 in Klein lineman that I love. Zoro is a good place to shop for different channellock pliers.
@@realworldtoolreviews Zoro is great, but their website is currently down. I have their #368 8" linesmans and they're great, they also make a 10" which I don't think anybody else in the US makes but I could be wrong. I also really like the 3504 " ironworkers " wire tying pliers. Hooked handle is great for pulling on wire and such doing fence repairs. I may have to check out those little kleins.
@@TylerSnyder305 I’ve got those iron worker pliers. Some of my favorite pliers ever made! I’m afraid they stopped making those Klein 6 inch. I haven’t been able to find them new. I got mine at an estate
Some things we know hold true in this world: 1. Sh*t flows downhill 2. Payday is on Friday 3. Don’t stick your fingers in your mouth 4. Hot on left, cold on the right 5. Real World Tool Reviews will buy more channellock pliers😂
(1) they probably don't make a straight cobra because they have the pliers wrench. (2) your set won't be complete until you buy a pair of auto set pump pliers. (3) I assume you gave up on the channel lock speed grip pliers because I don't see them there. Lmao.
1) the pliers wrench is such a different tool though. If they had a straight cobra with the good teeth and everything, it would be great. 2) I’ve got some of the robo grip craftsman ones. They are cool, but I really don’t like using them. The auto adjust isn’t as convenient as it seems. 3) I’m still using the speed grips, but I I hate them every time I use them 😂 they are actually the main ones I’ve been using since I got them to try and test them out for a review. I will have that review coming soon, and it will not be a good one lol
@@realworldtoolreviews the pliers wrench is literally the best tool for grabbing what you were grabbing, teeth are not needed when the edges are flat hence wrenches not having them. if a plier's wrench doesn't do it then the cobra does, that's why they don't need to make another, and everyone copies THEM. Oh, the alligator predates that Channellock design as well as knipex predating Channellock.
@@estevanolivas8972 Yea. I see where you are aiming from with that, but I just prefer my channel locks to have straight jaws, and I think a lot of people do, so I wish knipex would just make a pair that had them with their great super hardened teeth and overall awesome design that they have on the cobras/alligators. I would use them more if they were straight. Nothing wrong with having more variety. I did not know that those alligators came out before the v jaw channel locks. I don’t think they were making these style of pliers before channel lock as a whole though.
50 years ago channel locks was okay in the last 40 years they've turned to straight up shit products. Now that I have found an awesome player manufacturer. A little known German company called Knipex. I don't see any reason why I would ever buy another channel locks. If you want stripped screws busted up knuckles and slip joint pliers that don't get into the position you want them in even though you just put it in that position you want your old unreliable channel locks
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I am a retired plumber and I don't even have that many slip joint pliers. The WILDE brand has been around since the 60s and sold at plumbing wholesalers. The early versions did not have rubber grips just embellished handles, great company. Great video
Those angled slip joints are the absolute best for plumbing. They are just the perfect design. I actually noticed on this solder seal ones that the grips are coming off of, they have designs on the handles. I might cut it off and see what it looks like. Thanks bud!
you’re literally my favorite youtube channel !! I literally can watch you talk and show all your tools all day. Looking forward for the future videos! good luck with everything man!
Thanks so much man! I’m glad you like the videos. I really appreciate the support. You guys are what makes it fun!
I got a maintenance job at an auto parts manufacturer a couple months ago and I love coming and watching your videos to learn what kinda tools I need, what works well for what sort of job, and just what I need in my tool bag. Been very helpful and enjoy watching your videos. Love the content
That’s awesome man. I’m so glad that you have enjoyed the videos. Maintenance is an awesome field to get into man. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the Wilde recommendation! I picked up the Flush 6 1/2 slip joint, the 6 in 1 screwdriver and the 10'' flush channel locks! Solid tools!
Heck yea! Those are some great choices from a great company!
The ones I use are the Irwin flat jaws and the knipex cobras. I am a service tech and have tried everything else but they are the best. My service tech friend that has $30,000 worth of tools on the other side of the country uses the same ones randomly
Nice collection there. Wilde makes nice stuff. I have several pair of those Cman Professional pliers in red and black, they made all kinds of odd designs too. Keep your eye out for a pair of Channellock Nutbuster 410 & 414, I think they are also called 'Parrot Nose' pliers. Channellock also make smooth jaw pliers, #415.
I have the nut busters and the smooth jaw channell locks in the collection already! I’m not crazy about the smooth jaw ones though. They really don’t work well. But they are still good to have in the collection 😂 I really want to get my hands on some of those slip joint needle nose craftsman professional pliers. They did have some really cool design. They are pretty hard to find
Speaking of awesome pliers, I just got some Knipex Twin Grips in the mail today. Ordered one pair and received one BOX..with 6 pairs in it. Somebody, somewhere messed up good!! 👍
Dang that’s awesome! I love the twin grips.
I wonder if the longer straight section on the front of the jaws of the ES version of the cobra would work better than the regular version? It might make an interesting comparison
Those slip joint pliers are known as water pump pliers, and I've been using Ridgid versions, the 734, for a long time. I don't know about the Wilde, but the Ridgids have a narrow head, and they get so well into spaces fatter Channellocks will not. Sticking two pair in a close space is possible. One plumbing contractor I work for issues them to everyone.
Love the flush fastener my first exposure to it was SK. Got some new stuff coming once it’s all here ima drop a video. Big Wilde tool fan myself I think my first exposure was through tekton tools. Fair prices on just about everything they sell. They’re punches are great too.
Those SK were made by western forge just like those craftsman ones. I’ve always wanted a pair of those with the green handles. I have heard the Wilde punch and chisel set is great. Great pry bars too. They have a lot of good stuff.
Another great video keep it up brother 💯
Thanks bud!
24:45 The knipex cobra are actually more like pipe wrenches. I also experienced the issue. Fitting them on hexagon shapes like nut can be a bit difficult, (If you don't want to destroy the nut) and I think is more the secondary function of the pliers. They are more allrounders. Knipex makes the "pliers wrench" for hexagon parallel things, but it has no teeth and also you can't have them "non-parallel". There are situations you need teeth. Also you may want to tilt the yaws. Totally understandable, having pliers that have the high count of adjustment positions like the cobras, and the flat yaws with teeth is something desirable. This is something knipex can learn from channellock. No tool is the ultimate tool and will work for everything.
It's actually a combination of both your pronunciations lol. It sounds like Why-L-Dee. Their flush fastener stuff was out of stock on their site for the longest time, cool that they got some more made, I wonder if it's because they're OEMing for Tekton now I think (judging off the specific design and "tells" on the new Tekton stuff).
I had real good experiences with them too. FedEx damaged the box and the longest pry bar in the set I ordered disappeared, they got a new one sent to me, and the pry bars are awesome and durable. Ordering off them was a little more expensive than going to an authorized distributor but the money went directly to those 70 manufacturing jobs in Kansas and that's fine by me.
Knipex also has that kind of joint on their Alligator which you don't hear about often over everyone worshipping the Cobras 🤣 and there's a couple Japanese companies making that style, actually a bunch of companies over there still making pump pliers and crescent wrenches and stuff still in their own country. But I don't think anyone makes versions as small as Wilde who has 5" and 6.5" with that joint though.
9h yeah and for anyone wanting some of those Pipe Wrench Pliers, Epstein still has the old style with the tongue and groove adjustment on clearance for just $12 when they're normally like $35-40!
Well now I know the right way to say it 😂. Yea I bought the red pair of pipe wrench pliers from HJE recently for 12 bucks. Couldn’t pass it up. Those are some awesome pliers. I’m a big fan of Wilde stuff. They make great screwdrivers, punches, chisels, pry bars and stuff like that too as well as great pliers. One of the best tool companies out there in my opinion.
4:25 They would make a satisfying tool to restore. Because of the look, it's easy to improve on that. Some sharpening of the teeth with a three-sided file and somehow new handles and they are good again.
Dang that’s a good point. I never thought about trying to restore the teeth, but I bet the triangle file would work. I might try that. I can do some plasti dip handles too. That’s a good idea. Thanks!
Your voice reminds me of Matthew Mccounahey.......so soothing
You’re not the first person to say that 😂😂
PLIERS PLIERS PLIERS 🤩 nice vid
Yea I’ve really gone off the deep end dude. Thanks bud 😂
I'm thinking about a 10 in pair of Wilde with the flush joint. Are they the same as your Douglas?
No the flush joint Wilde are more of a channel lock style. The ones that are like the Douglas are called angled slip joint
@@realworldtoolreviews Would you say the Wilde 10in flush joint is a better wrench than the 430 Channellocks? Thank you.
@@donwendling7800 If I had to choose between those two, I would choose the Channellock 430 all day long. They have a wider jaw opening and just feel better to me. The Wilde flush joint is really nice too, but it’s tough to beat channel locks. The 10 inch angled slip joints are what you want from Wilde. Those are the best.
@@realworldtoolreviews Channellocks are hard to beat when it comes to price/value.....also my first tools 420 & 440 getting in the trades for 40 years
I've always pronounced it WILL-DEE, but I believe it is actually pronounced WILD as in Oscar Wilde.
WILD-E could be right though.
They make great stuff, I love their roll pin punches, and their handle pry bars.
Proto rebrands their pliers as well, which makes sense since Mac and PROTO are both S-B&D owned.
Lang rebrands the pry bars with orange handles,TEKTON rebrands them in standard red, Craftsman had them , Walmart has them under their Hyper Tough line ( where I bought all of mine ) first red then went to black handles.
I just got a very nice set of WILDE Screwdrivers on closeout from HJE, I'm not quite sold on the triangular handle profile yet but the quality is definitely there.
They're also the OEM for the Tekton screwdrivers, I really love my red hard handles.
Tekton also rebrands many of their punches and pliers.
I love Wilde, but as a Channellock fanboy I buy the blue handled pliers the most.
I'm also somebody who doesn't like generic names, I don't jump on people for it if they're referring to another good quality American tool though.
To me Channellocks are tongue & groove pliers made by the De'arment family in Meadville Pa, and if somebody calls some cheapo inferior import junk " Channellocks " it will bug me and I use it as an opportunity to correct / educate.
My uncle who's a plumber used to use the name generically till I started gifting him the blue handles and he was so impressed by the quality of Channellock that he no longer does that.
I have the lang rebrand orange pry bars. They are great pry bars for a good price. I love them. I’ll always call these style pliers channel locks. I just don’t know what else to call them. I’m not going to look at my buddy and ask him to hand me those water pump pliers lol. I am also a big fan of the Channellock tool company and have most of their products when it comes to pliers. They are a company that deserves to be supported for continuing to make quality tools in the USA for an affordable price. I think Wilde is right there with them.
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You'd actually be surprised at just how many different pliers they make.
I went looking at their digital catalog, and there's only fraction of what they make that you will find in stores.
I keep forgetting that I want to try a pair of their 367 linesmans.
I really wish they'd make a small 6" pair which would really be traditional " combination pliers ".
If you're not familiar, our standard default pliers here in the US are slipjoints, but in the UK and Europe they have combination pliers.
@@TylerSnyder305 yea I’ve got a couple pairs of the combination style pliers. They’re like lineman’s pliers with nut grabbers on them. I have a ton of the channel locks that you don’t find in stores. I’m pretty sure I have seen all their stuff. My next ones are going to be the 8 in linesman’s. I wish they had 6 too. I have a 6 in Klein lineman that I love. Zoro is a good place to shop for different channellock pliers.
@@realworldtoolreviews
Zoro is great, but their website is currently down.
I have their #368 8" linesmans and they're great, they also make a 10" which I don't think anybody else in the US makes but I could be wrong.
I also really like the 3504 " ironworkers " wire tying pliers.
Hooked handle is great for pulling on wire and such doing fence repairs.
I may have to check out those little kleins.
@@TylerSnyder305 I’ve got those iron worker pliers. Some of my favorite pliers ever made! I’m afraid they stopped making those Klein 6 inch. I haven’t been able to find them new. I got mine at an estate
Some things we know hold true in this world:
1. Sh*t flows downhill
2. Payday is on Friday
3. Don’t stick your fingers in your mouth
4. Hot on left, cold on the right
5. Real World Tool Reviews will buy more channellock pliers😂
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(1) they probably don't make a straight cobra because they have the pliers wrench.
(2) your set won't be complete until you buy a pair of auto set pump pliers.
(3) I assume you gave up on the channel lock speed grip pliers because I don't see them there. Lmao.
1) the pliers wrench is such a different tool though. If they had a straight cobra with the good teeth and everything, it would be great.
2) I’ve got some of the robo grip craftsman ones. They are cool, but I really don’t like using them. The auto adjust isn’t as convenient as it seems.
3) I’m still using the speed grips, but I I hate them every time I use them 😂 they are actually the main ones I’ve been using since I got them to try and test them out for a review. I will have that review coming soon, and it will not be a good one lol
@@realworldtoolreviews the pliers wrench is literally the best tool for grabbing what you were grabbing, teeth are not needed when the edges are flat hence wrenches not having them. if a plier's wrench doesn't do it then the cobra does, that's why they don't need to make another, and everyone copies THEM. Oh, the alligator predates that Channellock design as well as knipex predating Channellock.
@@estevanolivas8972 Yea. I see where you are aiming from with that, but I just prefer my channel locks to have straight jaws, and I think a lot of people do, so I wish knipex would just make a pair that had them with their great super hardened teeth and overall awesome design that they have on the cobras/alligators. I would use them more if they were straight. Nothing wrong with having more variety. I did not know that those alligators came out before the v jaw channel locks. I don’t think they were making these style of pliers before channel lock as a whole though.
@@realworldtoolreviews Looking forward to that speed grips reveiw.
I don’t think you have enough channellocks…
Yea me either lol
50 years ago channel locks was okay in the last 40 years they've turned to straight up shit products. Now that I have found an awesome player manufacturer. A little known German company called Knipex. I don't see any reason why I would ever buy another channel locks. If you want stripped screws busted up knuckles and slip joint pliers that don't get into the position you want them in even though you just put it in that position you want your old unreliable channel locks